emily: aaron levie, ceo of box. thank you so much. aaron: emily, thank you.: great to have you. ♪ ♪ emily: he is the provocateur behind some of the big ideas of our time. a creator of a sort of pop science. an unofficial, but incredibly influential set of laws that govern human behavior. between five "new york times" bestsellers and two decades at "the new yorker," malcolm gladwell has inspired, inflamed, and perplexed the most critical of readers. joining me today on "studio 1.0," author, journalist, and thought-provoker, malcolm gladwell. thank you so much for being here, it's really great to have you. in your latest book, "david and goliath," your argument is

emily: palantir.his is a company -- customers include the cia, the fbi, the army, the marines, the air force, yet there is so much mystery around it. as i understand it, it is using data on a massive scale to solve major problems from disease to terrorism. peter: right. it is always an interactive problem. part of the data can be processed by computers. part of it can best be analyzed by humans. one reporter who looked into it concluded that its software had been used in the bin laden raid and was critical in connecting all the dots at the end of the day. emily: do you think palantir could stop the next 9/11, or has it already? peter: something like palantir is the key to stopping major terrorist attacks. i don't think we are going to do it by projecting military force throughout the world. i think we will do it by sort of very cleverly uncovering these conspiracies before they come together. emily: some have expressed concern that your clients could actually use palantir to do evil things? do you wor

♪ emily: founder, ceo, mad scientist.ax levchin is one of silicon valley's most iconic and serial entrepreneurs. he has played a role in some of tech's biggest successes, from paypal to yahoo! to yelp. today, you can find him in his innovation lab, tackling issues like fertility, health care, and banking. but many years ago, max levchin had no country to call home. he fled the soviet union, and ever the entrepreneur, built a new life in america. joining me today on "studio 1.0" is paypal co-founder and affirm ceo, max levchin. max, thanks so much for joining us. max: thank you for inviting me. emily: you were born in the ukraine. how much of a connection do you still feel to the people and the country? max: anytime i am told that -- oh, you are russian, i know you are, i feel the need to say, no, actually, i am a jew who was born in the ukraine. it is still a part of what defines me. i haven't been back in a long time. on occasion, i miss it. emily: what do you miss? max: the people are very genuine. they don't pretend to

emily: bill clinton.you know, i just want to say, being a manager for justin bieber and arianna grande and all these young people, it's cool. emily: scooter braun, thank you so much for joining us on "studio 1.0." ♪ >> from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." charlie: evan osnos is here. he covers politics and foreign affairs for the new yorker and is the author of "age of ambition." he wanted national book award last year. he has been writing about the country for the last decade. this latest report as a cover story on china's president, xi jinping. it is called "china's new authoritarian."

emily: bill clinton.you know, i just want to say, being a manager for justin bieber and arianna grande and all these young people, it's cool. emily: scooter braun, thank you so much for joining us on "studio 1.0." ♪ >> the following is a paid advertisement for the new face of time life, starvista entertainment. ♪ welcome to my world ♪ >> these are songs we will always remember. ♪ won't you come on too ♪ >> songs we grow up with. ♪ she lets her hair hang low. ♪ >> the music that always touched

emily: what about google?ric schmidt, chairman of google, recently said that amazon is their biggest rival in search. bill: to qualify, he made the comments during an eu antitrust meeting. there was an incentive to highlight the competition, obviously. but i think there is some truth to it in this case. the nature of search is changing. if you were to search for an item to buy from an e-commerce search on amazon, you know where the reviews are, you know the category it is in, you know how to select prime or not. you do not get those features. now, google is doing something interesting. they are taking on this endeavor called google shopping express, which i cannot make the math work. i am waiting for someone in the press to follow around one of these vehicles and add up how many stops. i don't see how it can work. emily: and they are also trying to do delivery drones as well. bill: don't get me started on drones. i think the drones and the self-driving cars are a distraction to keep the media from talking abou

emily: it's great to have you.t's no pressure to write an intro for one of the most famous writers in the world, by the way. aaron: it's a nice intro. i appreciate it. emily: thank you. you just wrapped the last, the third and final season of "the newsroom." how do you feel? aaron: i feel great. this third season i think is the best of the three by far. i think it took me a while to learn how to write the show. it started to feel good in the third season. emily: talk to me about that process. aaron: i love series television. but the thing about it is that the schedule is ferocious and you have no time. so the worst part about it is that you have to write even when you're not writing well. and then you have to point a camera at it, and then you have to broadcast it to a lot of people. emily: "newsroom" has had its share of fanatical fans and also its share of critics. how do you deal with that? aaron: what i write is not going to be everybody's cup of tea. you learn that pretty early on and you're doing the show for

emily: what is that? reid: so, dungeons & dragons. emily: ok. so, when i was -- and actually, the way i got into dungeons & dragons was my dad, when i was nine, hired a babysitter for me who introduced me to dungeons & dragons. and i was like, 'ooh, creating new worlds, and thinking of how stories come together' -- and kind of like an interactive novel. emily: so you went to stanford. reid: yes. emily: you majored in symbolic systems. marissa mayer also majored in symbolic systems. what is that? reid: so, symbolic systems -- it's a unique major to stanford. and, it's -- the simple explanation is cognitive science and artificial intelligence -- although most people will think, 'that isn't simple.' but really, it's actually a step deeper, which is -- part of what is transforming the world are these notions of systems of symbols. whether they're computer programs, whether it's mathematics and logic, whether it's models of how we think and psychology -- i think i was the eighth or ninth person to acquire the major. emily: so while you are at stanfor

emily: can you sing? scooter: until about puberty. emily: can you dance?cooter: my first job ever was dancing at bar mitzvahs and weddings on the weekends for $150. emily: how about playing an instrument? scooter: my instrument was always, kind of, my ear. i knew what songs to play to make the audience move at the right time. emily: one of the values of your company is have a superhuman work ethic. what's the origin of that? scooter: i think originally it actually came from guilt. my grandparents were holocaust survivors, and my parents did not grow up with a lot, really nothing. knowing i was the first generation to have a little bit of something, i wanted to not receive anything and i wanted to work harder than everyone to make my own mark in the world. emily: you went to college, but school did not really suit you, it seems. scooter: yeah, i went to emory university in atlanta. i just found myself wanting to do business, wanting to not sit in class. unfortunately, i started selling fake ids for about two months there. and then i realized i was going to

emily: three kids?hamath: three kids in a two-bedroom, 400 square foot apartment, lived above a laundromat. and they grinded it out. they did everything. they put us in good schools. they found a way to give us music lessons. i mean, how do you do that on $32,000? emily: your mother was a housekeeper, right? chamath: my mom was a housekeeper, initially. my mom was always trying to better her english so that she could take the equivalency exams to become a nurse. unfortunately, that never happened for her. but she was able to become a nurse's aide. my dad struggled to find a job, worked at a photocopy store for a while. then finally got a job as a civil servant. well, the best he could do was escape a really difficult situation and try to set a good example and then, you know, hopefully these kids will learn, and they'll do the same thing. that is, sort of, a lot of my motivation to say what is on my mind. you know, the reality is i have -- you know, silicon valley, it trades on two things, right? one is

emily: loopt.hen you stepped down, there were certainly people out there who said he is not cut out to be you. paul: it is a good thing he's not cut out to be me, because i was not cut out to run something as big as y combinator is now. he is better than me at this. emily: come on, jessica. paul: i was good to giving advice to founders. emily: is sam going to be better than pg? jessica: well, they're going to be different. sam brings a lot of things to the table that neither of us had, which is this amazing amount of energy and patience that is needed to broker deals with investors. y combinator is doing a lot of different things as a result. emily: i want to talk a little bit about each of you and where you came from. where you grew up. your parents. paul: my family came here from england when i was 3 1/2. and we lived in pittsburgh, because my father worked in the nuclear business. when you designed a nuclear reactor, he was the one who would figure out if it was going to explode. emily: so what

emily: like what?alcolm: there are many cases where you have a responsibility as a thinking person to constantly revisit and revise what you believe. the minute you are unwilling to contradict things you've believed in the past, you've ceased to be a thinking person. emily: would you rewrite all of the books if you could? malcolm: yeah, sure, if i had the leisure, i would absolutely go back and revisit and reshape and reargue things because we know so much more. emily: has your life adapted based on some of the conclusions that you've drawn? malcolm: a little bit. i was so impressed while writing "blink" about the potential for bias and dysfunction in our snap judgment that i very actively try to question my first impression of things. when i meet people, the conclusions i draw about them, spending time to understand people's behavior from their perspective. emily: one of your chapters that has had great impact is from "outliers," where you present a study of canadian hockey players and the oldest play

emily: i will be back for sure. ♪ ♪ emily chang: he has built some of the world's biggest pop stars., ariana grande, korean viral sensation psy, and "call me maybe" hit maker carly rae jepsen. it all started when scooter braun stumbled across a youtube video of a kid in a canadian talent show. that kid was justin bieber. and braun is the manager who catapulted him to superstardom. but as the music industry goes through dramatic transformation, braun is reinventing his own empire, producing movies and tv shows, investing in tech

emily: ibm, hp. corey: two companies, similar business, slinging hardware, selling services, and selling a chunk of software. both want to be more in the software world. hp is going for a split of the company. there is no way they can do a split of the company and do an acquisition. they probably can't afford the acquisition anyway. unless it is a marriage of equals or something like that -- that is hard to imagine happening, but it would help them grow topline or not shrink topline. ibm is interesting. when you look at ibm, this is a company that talks endlessly about cloud. they like to make the argument in press releases that their cloud business is huge and bigger than salesforce's, bigger than anyone's. their sales growth would only decline by 3%. it's projected to decline by 10%. but it would take about one third of ibm to buy salesforce. emily: it seems a bit too ambitious or bold. brent: i don't think hp or ibm are in the mix. corey: ibm's balance sheet is so bad, they can't borrow money to d

emily: you were homeschooled.avid: computer science education in high school, at least in new york city, 14 years ago when i was in school really did not exist. it just didn't back then, it just wasn't in high schools. now it is there in a huge way. kids are learning to code in grade school. i always insist that you stick around. if you have that stuff at your disposal, hang out and spend time with teachers who are proficient and can help you get started. that is something i did not ave. emily: i feel like i've spoken to so many founders who are in your position, who dropped out of high school and made a lot of money. they have founded amazing companies, and they don't recommend anybody do what they did. david: if i had access to a computer science education when i was in high school, i would have stuck around. if you can find it there, stick around. get it there. emily: you went to tokyo by yourself when you were 17. why? david: i had my heart broken and needed to get out of here. i bought a ticket and moved to t

emily: will it be widespread? sebastian: we will be testing it out with surgeons and medical personnel. but eventually, it is hard to predict. but if we succeed, i think that many, many people will be wearing it in many situations. emily: if you could grade it, how successful has it been? sebastian: i still believe that it needs another iteration or two. we are learning as we try it out with people. we are refining it. emily: are our brains ready for this kind of technology? or will they ever be ready? sebastian: i think that what we are seeing is that more and more people are working in this context at almost the same time. whether it is good or bad -- there are advantages and disadvantages. the immediacy of being able to take a picture with a wink is quite amazing. i feel that the more we can unify the digital and physical world, the more exciting it will be. emily: i want to talk to you about how you became a guy who was wearing google glass who helped invent google glass. you were born in germany. tell me abou

i am emily chang.k and on the "best of west," we bring you the top interviews with the power players in technology and media companies that are reshaping our world. we begin with google. the search giant faces biggest issue ever when the eu began

emily: in one year. mark: thank you. emily: which is more than all three founders of twitter combined. mark: yes. that is true. emily: since twitter started, by the way. mark: i really think the stock in the company should be rebalanced. [laughter] emily: we are going to reference some of your tweets throughout this conversation, and i wanted to start with this one, given the anniversary of netscape. this is true, when i came to silicon valley in 1994, i thought i had missed all the opportunity, fun, and excitement. it felt post-apocalyptic. when did you realize you were wrong? mark: it really took the internet taking off. silicon valley had been on fire in the late 1970's and 1980's with the pc, and with software, with companies like oracle taking off, and microsoft, adobe, and apple, and all these local companies. and then the valley crashed really hard in the late 1980's. what i learned is, the talent, the latent talent, the number of people in the valley who were talented and qualified and skilled, who had been throu

emily? emily: thank you cory.usty desert of new mexico may hold the key to california for a water problem. the desalination technology being put to the test. and neil degrasse tyson bringing his science genius to television. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg west." i am emily chang. still to come -- solving california for water problem. plus, the world's most famous astrophysicist. first, top headlines. buying the educational tech business for $555 billion -- $535 million in cash. they have 40% of the market. the fantasy sports website fan duel has the purchase naming rights for the boxing trunks floyd meriwether will wear in his out against manny pacquiao. the terms were not disclosed. they will have a face at value of $10,000 each. the california drought has caught the attention of the world, but solving the world's water problem has been a long-running goal of the u.s. aid global development lab. our editor at large cory johnson has a look at how they are spurring innovation in the heart of the american desert throug

i'm emily chang.ere is a check of your bloomberg top headlines -- a futures trader has been arrested in the united kingdom for allegedly contribute into the may 2010 flash crash. navinder singh sarao is accused of illegal bait and switch practices to manipulate the market. criminal liar and commodities charges were filed i the u.s. justice department. they are seeking his extradition. bill gross says the 10 year german bond is the short of a lifetime. he joined "street smart" earlier today to explain why he is betting against german government bonds. bill: it's about five years forward in both germany and the u.s., but the yield difference between those two is about 200 basis points lower for germany. so equal quality, yes, but 200 basis points lower in germany. that says u.s. treasuries are a whale of a buy and german bonds are a whale of a short. i'm suggesting if you want to hedge, the best thing is to sell the german bond and by -- buy u.s. treasuries. emily: he says most investors want to wait fo

emily: bloomberg there. "bottom line" is coming up. ♪ emily: i am emily chang.bloomberg west." we visited seattle to see what the city's cto is doing to wire the emerald city. let's find out what new york has in store. last year, new york appointed its chief technology officer with a mandate to develop a strategy for technology and foster the city's tech sector. here she is, joining us from new york. new york's first chief technology officer, what is your number one priority? minerva: my priority is to make new york city the most tech friendly and innovative city in the world. while we care about cool technology, we also care about closing the digital divide. it is probably the modern issue of our time. emily: you want to turn old payphones into wi-fi kiosks. minerva: this is something we are excited about, linknyc. we are turning all of the old payphones in new york city into free wi-fi hotspots. there are a couple cool things about it. who uses a pay phone anymore? second, we are using the existing infrastructure to make them into this modern, sleek and beauti

emily: i am emily chang and this is "bloomberg west."till to come, senator marco rubio's moneyball campaign. how he is using the data to woo donors. and a major telecom's possible alcatel lucent deal. the imf is keeping its global growth forecast at 3.5% for this year. the imf predicts that the strong u.s. dollar will boost europe and japan and cause some softness in the u.s. here is chief economist olivier blanchard on europe. olivier: this is leading us to have a higher forecast for the eurozone for this year than last year. the main risk that we saw last year was the risk of recession in the eurozone. that seems -- hasn't disappeared but it is much smaller than it used to be. emily: as for greece, he says the greek exit from the eurozone would be extremely painful, but he says the rest of the euro is in a better position to deal with it. real estate website zillow gives an update on its integration of arrival website it purchased earlier this year. zillow says the long ftc approval process has caused hurdles in the transition and will

emily chang.he is in. hillary clinton has finally announced her candidacy for the white house. the response has been overwhelming with over 500 million video views in the first hour of her video. how big of a rolet will to play in her campaign? i spoke with alec roth, her former senior adviser and asked what his involvement would be. alec: i think she wants support for her presidential run. when we connected, she was in ohio on her way to iowa. very excited about her new presidential run. emily: how did she feel? alec: the rollout has been a huge success. i mean it is kind of an and is actually. you know, they came out with this new video, and within the first 18 hours, it was viewed 5 million times. now, one of the other presidential candidates is rand paul, his video had been watched 250,000 times. so, you know, i think 20 times as well as the next tech savvy candidate is not shabby. so she feels pretty good. emily: do likes and followers on twitter and facebook, do they translate into votes? al

♪ emily: i am emily chang and this is "bloomberg west." major warning on in-flight wi-fi from u.s. watchdogs. plus, the rapid rise and fall of meerkat. a check of your top headlines. the french senate approved a meseaasure forcing search engines to prove how they rank results. he french economy minister said the parliamentary bill will not hold up. it could be removed within days.a day after the european union accused google of abusing its dominant in search. ben bernanke has a new gig, working for a hedge fund. he will become a senior advisor at citadel, the firm run by can griffin. bernanke will meet with clients and offer analysis on economic and financial matters. while in-flight wi-fi connects travelers to the outside world, it could give hackers a way into the plane's onboard computer system. the government accountability office reports that hundreds of commercial planes may be vulnerable to cyber attacks through passenger wi-fi networks. many modern cockpits rely on the same wi-fi passengers are using, meaning a hacker could command

emily: thank you both. ♪ emily: welcome back to "bloomberg west," i'm emily.n in-depth discussion on cyber threats. i sit down with a retired four-star general. first of attentive headlines. greek banks have received access to more emergency funding. the governing council raised the cap on emergency liquidity of this by 1.6 billion dollars. in the meantime, euro area finance ministers will feet -- meet to persuade greece to commit to economic reform. new mcdonald's ceo is relaunching a mobile app and remaking its marketing strategy. >> my vision is for mcdonald's to be seen like a modern progressive company, for the contemporary customer experience. it is about doing what it takes to be doing what our customers expect tomorrow. emily: a reported a 33% drop in first-quarter profits and an 11% drop in first-quarter sales. sales of drop six straight quarters in the u.s. boeing says different production costs are rising for it dreamliner. costs rose 3% in the first quarter. they also posted negative free cash flow and a 92% plunge in operating cash flow. profit in

coming up next. ♪ emily: welcome back. i'm emily chang.serious problem in technology right now when it comes to filling future engineering jobs. a new documentary that made its debut at the phil kessel this -- tribeca film festival this week, seeks to shed light on this very issue. >> students have no exposure to programming. >> computer science should be a requirement in all public schools. this is a rosy the riveter moment. because the jobs are here and we don't have the workers to fill them. emily: will the film get the attention of tech giants to help get more women into jobs? joining me now to discuss, the film's director and producer. thank you for joining us. this is an important conversation we have been having over the past several years. what is your goal with this film? guest: there is a lot to go but i would like to inspire change the way women see themselves in the industry, change in the way the startup culture is not so welcoming to women and people of color, and to inspire change in the education system. we have to make com

i'm emily chang. here's a check of your bloomberg top headlines. global selloff spilled over to the u.s. today, sending u.s. stocks down the most in three weeks. investors digested a handful of economic reports, looking for clues of the next rate hike. the cost of living rose in march and a separate report shows consumer confidence improving this month. president obama is warning that if the u.s. cannot come up with a trade deal with other pacific nations, china will step into the void. the president spoke today at a white house news conference with the italian prime minister. president obama: i did not get elected because the sponsorship of the business roundtable or chamber of commerce. the reason i'm doing it is because i know this is an important thing to do and i know it sends a signal throughout asia that we are out there competing and we are going to help maintain international rules that are fair for everybody. emily: obama is seeking to close a deal with 11 other nations that would cover 40 p

emily: live from pier 3 in san francisco, welcome to "bloomberg west." i'm emily chang. linkedin shares plunge in after-hours trading. first-quarter sales were up 35% and the company posted a $43 million loss. revenue slowed and the company's main business serving -- as many accounts were given to new sales representative. more on these results later in the hour. monsanto, the world's largest -- is eyeing syngenta ag a takeover target. the talks come a year after monsanto's previous attempts fell apart. hillary clinton now has a challenger in the race for the 2016 democratic presidential nomination. vermont senator bernie sanders has officially announced his candidacy. senator sanders: i believe in a democracy that elections are about serious debates over serious inssues not making campaigns into soapb oxes. this is not the red sox versus the yankees. this is a debate over major issues. emily: sanders considers himself a socialist and caucuses with senate democrats. expedia is aiming to complete its takeover of rival travel site orbitz by the end of the year. in its firs